So, I'm presenting tomorrow to @MASBONet, and nothing gives me more impostor syndrome than that, so I am going to cope as I often do, by sharing some of what I'm going to say here first.

My operational theory here, essentially, is "hey, this coming budget year is going to be a MESS, so you should make sure as many people are as clear as possible about how things work on funding."

(My general operational theory is "you should make as many people as clear as possible about how things work on funding," as you may have noticed!)

PREVIOUSLY, the presentation was going to be "here's why what people may have thought was going to happen due to the Student Opportunity Act didn't" but, hey, sometimes, workshop titles fit more than one knew then!

One of the overarching things to know (dare I say of course?) is where does the money of our budget come from?
These are FY18 (because I only got my hands on FY19 yesterday), but Cambridge and Holyoke:
(yes, these are extremes; that's the point)

The degree to which one *has* to care on, say, Chapter 70 aid thus varies.

This thread gives most of the research I'm citing on impacts when it comes to state/local: https://twitter.com/TracyNovick/status/1260910351983480833?s=20

But just, for example: